back to school

I love deals! I hate paying full price for most things! What I usually do is buy things at the end of their season for next season. I was shopping and decided to check out the Back to School and End of Summer sales and scored. 

I got 6 outdoor solar lights for $1.50 each, 10 lunch box ice packs for 30¢ each, and I found 2 backpacks for 50% off! 

Jovi and Corban were so excited about their backpacks that they immediately put them on and kept them on for two full days! Corban kept asking if we could go on an adventure with no maps and no where to go. He went around the house and put most of his toys in his backpack and even wanted to sleep with it!

I bought the backpacks for Jovi's and Corban's 72 hour kits. I have gotten most of our kits put together. All I need is some odds and ends, food, and water! So, they're basically worthless until I get those last two items.

What do you put in your 72 hour kits?

are you prepared?

For the past 4 years I have been putting together GOOD 72-hour kits, you know, just in case of an emergency like Hurricane Katrina. I've got most of the stuff we need need, but still need the food and water (kind of important things to have to survive).

The whole time I'm putting these kits together, I'm also trying to put together a bigger and better, a more comprehensive emergency preparedness kit for longer term. We had flashlights, but what about when the batteries run out? Yikes. 

Pinterest saves me yet again! And I found out how to make my own candles out of soy wax. Check the post out here.

I friend of mine and I tried it out on just a couple of jars (what if something happened like the wax over-heating and exploding everywhere?) and it worked perfectly!!

I still have about 4 pounds of soy wax. So I'm gonna buy more jars, or eat all the strawberry jam in my other jam bottles, and make more candles for my emergency preparedness kits!

What do you do for emergency preparedness?